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Thursday, July 26, 2012

Obama’s America — and ours

“If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else
made that happen.” Mitt Romney fell on this Obama quote like an NFL
lineman on an end zone fumble during the Super Bowl. And understandably
so.
For this was no gaffe, said Romney, this is what Obama believes. This
is straight out of the catechism. Obama thinks that had not the
government created the preconditions, none of us could succeed. We all
depend on government. None of us can make it on our own.

Had Obama been channeling Isaac Newton — “If I have seen further than
others it is because I am standing on the shoulders of giants” — or
John Donne — “No man is an island, entire of itself” — many would have
nodded in agreement.

But what Obama seemed to be saying — indeed, was saying — was that, without government, no business can succeed.

Realizing that statement rubs against a deeply ingrained American
belief — that the people built the nation — Obama and his acolytes are
charging that Romney ripped his words out of context.
Here is Obama’s full quote:

“If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help.
There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to
create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you
to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a
business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made it happen.”

Even with this preamble, Romney seems to have it right. Obama sees
government as indispensable. Without the roads and bridges that
government builds, without the teachers government provides, no one
succeeds. It takes a village.

Yet Obama’s narrative does not tell us why some succeed and others
fail. Does Obama understand America? For he surely does not seem to
understand her history as once taught to every schoolchild.
From Jamestown in 1607 to Yorktown in 1781, there was no federal
government. There was no United States. Yet generations of colonists had
built forts, cleared lands, created farms, established workshops.
Americans fed, clothed and housed themselves, creating one of the
highest standards of living on earth for 3 million people.

How could the U.S. government have built the roads and bridges if the
U.S. government did not exist before 1789? There were no public schools
until the 19th century. Colleges were the creations of religious
denominations. The Pell grant had not yet been invented.

Was government indispensable to Eli Whitney’s invention of the cotton
gin, Robert Fulton’s invention of the steam boat, Alexander Graham
Bell’s invention of the telephone, Guglielmo Marconi’s invention of the
radio and Thomas Edison’s invention of the light bulb, and just about
everything else?

Did Wilbur and Orville Wright learn how to build bicycles in a CETA
program? Were the feds responsible for the flight at Kitty Hawk?

Seeing government as antecedent to enterprise, Obama has it backward.
In America, individuals, families, communities came first. Hardworking
men and women built the society. Only after that did they send their
best and brightest off to the House of Burgesses to discuss colonial
issues.

The Founding Fathers who created the U.S. government were deeply
distrustful of the centralized power Obama seems to worship. They had
had enough of the beneficent big government of George III. Obama
notwithstanding, government does not create wealth. Government collects
wealth, redistributes wealth, consumes wealth.

Even when government “builds” something like a Golden Gate Bridge, it
does not really build it. It commissions it. Architects, engineers and
construction companies build the bridge, not bureaucrats from HUD.

As Arthur Herman writes in “Freedom’s Forge: How American Business
Produced Victory in World War Two,” FDR immediately turned to GM’s Big
Bill Knudsen to corral the leaders of American industry to stop making
Fords, Packards, Lincolns and Chryslers, and start making jeeps, tanks,
guns and aircraft engines.
“Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be
shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it
as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon,” said Winston Churchill.

Obama belongs to category two.

But perhaps he cannot be blamed for not understanding the real
America. His mother and father, his role models like Frank Marshall
Davis and Saul Alinsky, his neighbors like Bernardine Dohrn and Bill
Ayers, all came out of the anti-capitalist left.

From academia to community organizing to an Illinois legislature that
milked so much money from the people the state may beat Jerry Brown’s
California into bankruptcy — Obama’s life has been spent in tax-exempt,
tax-subsidized and tax-supported institutions.

Yet this Obama-Romney collision frames the great issue of 2012.
Which is the true creator of wealth and engine of prosperity?
Is it, as Obama believes, government?

Or is it, as Romney believes, people and their institutions and
businesses that, though carrying the immense burden of government that
consumes 37 percent of the economy, still employs six of seven Americans
still working? That’s the choice.

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